Here's a question. I know they are flaring, what is the chance of those flares igniting the gas pocket?

Quoting: d1k

"...it has Assumption Parish sheriff and local residents ordered to evacuate worried about a catastrophic explosion, one according to scientists in an Examiner investigation, would be in the range of one and a half B83 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs." [link to www.examiner.com]